Spaceflight News Scraper 🚀

Scrape spaceflight & space news — articles, blogs and agency reports — with title, news site, summary, image, link, and related launch/event IDs. No API key. Datacenter-friendly. Fast and cheap.

This Actor turns the open Spaceflight News API (SNAPI v4) into clean, structured, ready-to-use data on the Apify platform. Track SpaceX, NASA, Artemis, Starship, Blue Origin, ESA, ISRO, CNSA and hundreds of missions across dozens of publishers — in one export.

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What it does

• Scrapes three content types: articles, blogs, and reports.
• Full-text search across titles and summaries (spacex, nasa, starship, artemis, …).
• Filter by a single news site (e.g. SpaceNews, NASASpaceflight, NASA).
• Returns items newest-first with pagination up to 1,000 per run.
• No API key, no login, no proxy required — plain JSON, runs cheaply on datacenter memory.

Why use it

• 📰 Space news aggregation — build a live feed of everything happening in spaceflight.
• 🔬 Research — collect structured datasets on launches, missions, and agencies.
• ✉️ Newsletters — auto-fill a weekly space digest with fresh, linkable stories.
• 📡 Media monitoring — watch mentions of a company, rocket, or program across publishers.

Input

Field	Type	Description
mode	select	Scraping mode. news fetches the chosen content type.
type	select	articles (default), blogs, or reports.
search	string	Optional full-text search, e.g. spacex.
newsSite	string	Optional single publisher filter, e.g. SpaceNews.
maxItems	integer	Max items to scrape (default 100, max 1000).

Example input

{
  "mode": "news",
  "type": "articles",
  "search": "spacex",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Output

One dataset item per news item. All fields are nullable.

{
  "id": 39081,
  "type": "articles",
  "title": "Launch Preview: Falcon 9, Starship, and Chinese rockets scheduled to launch",
  "url": "https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/07/launch-preview-072026/",
  "image_url": "https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/julia-streak-3.jpg",
  "news_site": "NASASpaceflight",
  "summary": "After last week's aborted Starship Flight 13 launch, SpaceX is scheduling a new attempt.",
  "published_at": "2026-07-20T20:53:25+00:00",
  "updated_at": "2026-07-20T21:00:13.983259+00:00",
  "featured": false,
  "launches": ["72eebd7f-2051-4357-b643-c41246c0be1e"],
  "events": [],
  "source": "spaceflightnews",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-21T00:00:00+00:00"
}

launches and events are lists of Launch Library 2 IDs you can cross-reference with launch/event APIs.

Pricing

Pay-per-result, roughly $0.50 per 1,000 items. A typical 100-item run costs a fraction of a cent in compute — great for scheduled monitoring.

Related actors

• Google News Scraper
• GDELT News Scraper
• NASA NEO Scraper
• Hacker News Scraper

FAQ

Do I need an API key? No. The Spaceflight News API is open and key-less.

How fresh is the data? Items are ordered newest-first and the source updates continuously.

Can I schedule it? Yes — use Apify Schedules to run it hourly/daily and append to a dataset or trigger integrations (Slack, Zapier, Make, webhooks).

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